Highlight all or portions of the following 29 measurements
of the density of the earth, then copy and paste them
into the Histogram applet.


5.50
5.57
5.42
5.61
5.53
5.47
4.88
5.62
5.63
4.07
5.29
5.34
5.26
5.44
5.46
5.55
5.34
5.30
5.36
5.79
5.75
5.29
5.10
5.86
5.58
5.27
5.85
5.65
5.39

Source URL:
The Data and Story Library
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/

The Cavendish datafile
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/Cavendish.html

Reference: Moore, David S., and George P. McCabe (1989).
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics. Original source:
Stigler, S.M., "Do robust estimators work with real data?"
Annals of Statistics, 5 (1977), pp. 1055-1078.

This dataset contains 29 measurements of the density of the earth,
obtained by Henry Cavendish in 1798 using a torsion balance.
Density is presented as a multiple of the density of water.



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